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The Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens: Two Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. E-book. Formato PDF
Richard Caton
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Some apology is perhaps needed from one who can neither claim to be a classical scholar nor a professional archaeologist in venturing upon the subject of these lectures.Repeated visits to Greece and the Greek colonies during the past twenty years have enabled the author to observe, in their various stages, certain...
I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine. E-book. Formato EPUB
Richard Caton
edizioni Books on Demand collana , 2020
To all who love our venerable and beneficent profession the spectacle of our predecessors in early ages striving in darkness and difficulty to acquire that hidden knowledge to which we have partially attained is interesting and should awaken our sympathy. As was remarked by the learned Harveian Orator of 1896: 'The...
The Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens. E-book. Formato EPUB
Richard Caton
edizioni Books on Demand collana , 2020
According to tradition, Asklepios, the son of Apollo and Koronis, was born in the Hieron valley, in the Argolic peninsula; the place names still preserve the legend; the hamlet of Koroni commemorates his mother, the hill Titthion owes its name to his having been there suckled by a goat, while on the opposite hill,...